Talking About Those Bad Generals-- Part 2: From Bragg to Devins

The McHenry Civil War Round Table Discussion Group meeting Feb. 27, 2016.

Some other suggestions for "Bad Generals":

BRAGG--  The worst.  He fought his subordinates more than the enemy.

BUTLER--  Enough said.  Real funny when he was telling the Committee on the Conduct of the War that Fort Fisher couldn't be taken right when the paper boys outside in the street started yelling that it had.

SIGEL--  Had German connections leading to his generalship.  But after the 1864 election, Lincoln no longer needed the German vote.

BANKS--  Involved with illegal cotton trade.

CHARLES DEVINS--  From Massachusetts.  Commanded 11th Corps at Chancellorsville.

--Old Secesh